So I turned 24 a few days ago. No big deal really. Until I realized that in turning 24, I am now living the 25th year of my life. I will have been on this planet for a quarter of a century in a year. Crazy right? Well, it is to me.

Anyway, in honor of my twenty fifth year on the planet, I’m making it my goal to read 25 carefully selected books over the course of the next year. In all honesty, I’ll read more, since reading is what I do. But I want to make sure to read the following 25:

25 Books by 25 (in no particular order)

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlesex by Jefferey Eugenides

A Room with a View by E.M. Forrester

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

The Republic by Plato

Sold by Patricia McCormick

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Wish me luck! I’ll post as I read them and keep you updated.

Also, what would you recommend? Anything on here you strongly agree or disagree with?